I have....and in my area....they might be better than Verizon. I have Verizon. I just go by what works for me when I want n need it. My PS Vita using AT&T data gets better data reception in my apt than any smartphone I had/have on Verizon.

I used/use mostly Motorola phones on Verizon, currently have a Maxx HD.

Am curious if a phone would work the same. So at leats in my area....Verizon and AT&T are about even.

AT&T will be last for sometime because they won't get 1x Advance LTE up and running before 2017, while Sprint, and Verizon will have their LTE 1x Advance network complete.
Come 2014 Sprint will be on par with Verizon, and if they keep unlimited data can catch up!

Networkdood you know that I never troll. You are just a big mouth idiot, and from the past you should know that I always speak from a factual point of view.

Also having a smaller LTE network has nothing to do with them sucking. I was on AT&T when they bought out Cellular one who bought out mobile one, and I left for Sprint because of all of he dropped calls when Sprint 1st opened the doors.

Based on my sisters iPhone always dropping it must still suck with dropped calls. rofl

Actually Cellular One was bought out by Airtouch which was one of many companies that merged together to for the Verizon Wireless powerhouse. Cellular One = Verizon... Get your facts together. And as far as AT&T having the fastest LTE is because they haven't even reached 15% LTE smartphone ratio whereas Verizon is almost at the 50% mark. To keep comparisons fair, compare Verizons LTE and ATT LTE at launch on an uncrowded network. Now those are facts

Wrong, Cellular was brought out by ATT. And Airtouch was taken from Verizon. Airtouch was mainly in the East Coast and Midwest. In which where Verizon originally came from. I remember all this when shortly after the take over of Cellular One, it when with GSM.

In my rural area. Back in the mid 90's Cellular One was also CDMA. My mother had a CDMA Analog Nokia. Cellular One then became (via a buyout or "merger") Verizon owned. GSM and TDMA and other networks. Even (now outdated) iDEN was all late in coming here. So that is how I know. It's possible Cellular One had holdings in CDMA AND GSM networks.

last stats I saw on LTE use with verizon placed about 5 million customers using LTE. Versus nearly 100 million customers on their network, that's only like 5%. They may be selling ha of all their current phones they're selling as LTE devices, but one out of 10 of those devices are actually connected to LTE. So everybody's got a lot of work to do in the LTE department, even Verizon. And giving them a pass isnt really fair because they were first out the door. Yes, they have the biggest LTE network too, but when you compare their growth of their LTE network vs AT&T and Sprint at the times they launched their LTE networks, its about the same or even slower.

You come with a flawed fact Phoneg33k just as some of these idiot posters in this thread like "networkfool". Here's a little Cellular history posted from wikipedia..

AT&T Wireless began in 1987 as McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.., a cellular telephone pioneer in the United States. Savvy licensing of cellular spectrum in the early 1980s put McCaw Cellular in an extremely strong position, quickly outpacing the growth of the "Baby Bells" in the emerging market. The company purchased MCI Communications's mobile businesses in 1986, followed by LIN Broadcasting in 1989, giving them widespread access in all of the major US markets. Partnering with AT&T as a technology provider, McCaw introduced their "Cellular One" service in 1990, the first truly national cellular system. AT&T purchased 33% of the company in 1992, and arranged a merger in 1994 that made Craig McCaw one of AT&T's largest shareholders. In 2002, the company was spun off from AT&T to become AT&T Wireless Services

You're an idiot AT&T has more LTE data now but in the future they have to solve how to get 1xAdvnace to work with their 700mhz signal, and a fool calling some one else dumb with backward flawed facts go figure

Ok please explain how AT&T has more LTE data than Verizon? I really wanna hear this, b/c Verizon covers 4x the markets that AT&T does, and by AT&T's own admission, they are around 2 years behind Verizon in LTE rollout. I gotta hear this.

You cheapen your posts by resorting to insulting people qwik. Looking back at it closer I see what you are saying and my comment should have been more directed at FranksGT. Better LTE than Verizon? Yeah, no.

You must have anger issues or something dood. Name calling on a mobile phone forum? Is that really necessary?

yEAH, QUik, can be somewhat intelligent but then he turns into a 'HYDE', or a 'Jekyll'....
AT&T, when you combine HSPA+ and 4G LTE, has better coverage of '4G' networks than Verizon. With Verizon, not all 4G LTE areas are fast speeds and if that fails hello slow 3G CDMA - with AT&T from 4G LTE you get speedy HSPA+.

Some what intelligent....rofl you would hope to have the unbiased intelligence that I have backed by facts not BS like most of your biased post.....you are a joke leading jokers, and you think that you are way smarter than you really are!

what are you smoking man?sprint has LTE 1x Advance complete>? first, do you even know the definition of LTE advanced? it's averaging the 60 mbps, 300 mbps theoretical, and sprint has by no means not even that, T-Mobile's HSPA+ beats Sprint's joke of LTE

What are the rankings based on? Let's see what verizon's done: still only one 4G technology, still no simultaneous voice/text/data on the same network, they raised their prices and are forcing their customers onto the Share Everything plans which have unlimited minutes that few customers need, don't let their customers keep grandfathered features with upgrades, and still have goofy billing issues and fees they keep getting sued over, and still have to buy a special version of a phone for ot to work outside the U.S.. So is Verizon highly scored (I.e. 70% versus others' 50%), it just the least-lowest scored (50% versus others' 40%)?

Oh wait, consumer reports, I forgot how little actual knowledge and authority they have. Though they were accurate on the prior iphone; even blind squirrels find nuts.

I agree with -box- , Where do they get their data for these reports anyway? It depends on where they live, I work for at&t and live in Georgia, At&t has the best service here except for some rural areas. I dont work for corp, but for a small retailer - we sit down with our customers, show them how to use their phone, monitor their data use, and we make sure they are put on the best plan for their situation. We don't take away your grandfathered features or plans when you sign a new contract. A Verizon store is two doors down from me, and their customers come into my store saying they are rude, expensive, and down talking other small businesses. So I welcome that. Yes i understand verizon is a giant, and has the best LTE coverage, but you are left in the dark when you go out of one of those LTE zones. Where At&t has HSPA+ to back you up if you fall out of one of their LTE zones. We receive extensive training monthly about new devices, features, and plans. These consumer reports can say whatever they want, because its always inaccurate data they're the ones that are not knowledgable, and its a small sample of what is truly the larger picture. not saying I'm bias but, Since I got a job for at&t I have found my career! I love this job, I love my customers, and I love my network!

Wrong, it's up to the phone manufacturers to makes a simultaneous voice and data phone. HTC is one of the few to do so. Also, most phones on Verizon and Sprint are international roaming capable and both carriers will unlock the phones if your account is in good standing, no questions asked.

Prior to LTE, CDMA is actually more efficient and inherently more secure and many countries do make use of it. LTE remedies a lot of GSM's short comings. I'd suggest doing proper research on it. (This is going off on the special phones thing).

Although I agree and hate the forced change to Share Everything when upgrading, you are absolutley wrong about everything else.

Verizon has simultaneous voice and data in all 4G devices but the iPhone. If you want your phone to work internationally then buy an international phone. Plain and simple. Personally I rather buy a crappy pre-paid when traveling through Europe anyway. International pricing for all US phone carriers is crazy expensive and not worth it or better yet buy a global phone and Verizon will unlock it for you.

All carriers have stupid billing issues. Not making an excuse for it just fact. Even though i've only had one billing issue with verizon in my 10+ years of service and they fixed it for me quick.

Plus being a Jersey resident during Sandy I appreciated all they did during the storm.

-box-, ALL carriers have billing issues they get sued over. That is nothing that is specific to Verizon. The Share Everything plans actually work for a lot of people. Maybe 10% of users, no more than 20%, actually use more than 2GB of data a month. They DO have simultaneous voice/text/data on the same network. The crappy Thunderbolt I had when it launched could do it, even on 3G, b/c HTC made it that way. It is up the OEM, NOT the carrier to make the phones capable of that.

Tis better to have people think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Would love for T-Mobile to step up its game; become more reliable, dependable in usability. Sure, when near a tower their data streaming is good, but not always feasible or the case. Compared to maybe four years ago, voice quality has improved dramatically, and they offer some of the best prepaid packages in the industry. I still maintain one line with Verizon for traveling purposes; they are still the most reliable network in the contiguous United States, and of course overpriced.

hehe not really, especially HSPA+ my area is an HSPA+ market with at&t and people are lucky to get 4 mbps, Verizon has LTE so they hit the 30's, sprint has 3G so they're lucky to hit 1 mbps and people with T-Mobile average around 17 mbps so yes their HSPA+ is a big problem, and none the less I used to be with at&t and main reason why I left was their rude staff whether it was in store or on the phone, I travel a lot and back in 2010 they wouldn't unlock my then marvelous xperia x10, I couldn't believe that the phone couldn't be unlocked until august 2011, that pissed me off so much because then I had to get an unlocked smartphone to use it abroad, so then after I decided to jump ship to T-Mobile, where you can get any phone unlocked after 14 days, that's waaay better than waiting a year and a half, oh and recently I went by their hostile store where I intended to purchase a Lumia 920, at this the rep said I had to enroll in a contract, and I said no I just want to purchase the phone at full retail, they said that it couldn't be done and that I needed to enroll and if I ended up canceling that I would be charged the ETF AND the rest of the phone plus the first month bill, so I was looking at 450+350+70(cheapest plan) = 870$ for a lumia, so in regards to that they really need to change that weird policy because it just ends up pissing people like me off, I can't wait for my home internet DSL contract with at&t to be over with.

Seems like everyone has their own story on how their perspective carrier works. However, I think its important to remember that for every great review there can be an equally bad one. And everyone knows that these carriers are very far from perfect. But the question is which carrier has the least complaints, the least problems, and the best service overall. Verizon won because of that and not a single person's view. Next year it could be T-Mobile that wins who knows. But I think its clear that at least Verizon customers seem to be happier than others.

IN upstate NY, Verizon is better service, for 2g, heck, friends boast they get Verizon in tunnels underground. BUT Verizon costs, ala carte pricing, AT&T isn't far behind. The taxes and fees are a killer. And 4g, at this stage is a battery grinder. I'm going to backdoor month to month for a while until they catch on to it.

The gov't has taxed and feed wireless service hardcore the last couple years as it has exploded in adoption by consumers. They know they can get away with it b/c we will complain but still keep paying it.

I know I'm a newbie to att but I made the switch from sprint 3 days ago and it's nice to be able to use a 4G lte phone on a network that supports Lte. I have no complaints with att, so far. It is simply better than sprint.

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I switched to Verizon in October from AT&T. I actually get dropped calls now. Lte is fast, but this dropped calls thing is ridiculous. It may just be Pittsburgh is a bad area, but I don't find verizon the best around here.

I travel throughout Northern Cleveland Ohio to Pittsburgh PA and I have had all 4 major carriers in the last 5 years, with AT&T my current carrier. As far as voice goes its a tie between Verizon and AT&T, then Sprint then T-Mobile. As far as data goes nothing is close to AT&T. It's beyond fast. Now the argument is HSPA+ 4G or not, who really cares what's it called because Verizons 3G isn't even close. About 1-2GB download on Verizon, 5-8 on AT&T...Call it whatever you want. On LTE its closer but again in my location and experience AT&T is faster. T-Mobile is quick in metro areas, and Sprint 3G is just horrible. Again based on my locations and experience.

Keep in mind though that the 4G LTE adoption rate with AT&T isn't as high as Verizon's. I bet the speeds with LTE will be quite close to each other once the adoption rate equalizes. The more devices using the service, the slower it will get, little by little. Based on adoption rates, AT&T's LTE should be somewhat faster due to less traffic overall, imo.

Lots of dumb comments in here, VZW does have VoLTE capable phones the Droid Razr HD does it, it's all up to the OEM when they put in their chipsets and I believe that phones sporting Qualcomm S4/Pro chipsets do VoLTE. Verizon is expensive, but no mmore expensive than AT&T. Verizon actually has a very well built network and backup systems. My younger sister works for these guys and she is going on a tour of their back up facility, the one that will even allow the network to stay connected during bad storms like Sandy. A building with nothing but battery nests connected to even more battery nests to keep their network rolling, why you pay more on VZW as opposed to T-Mobile well they try to ensure you are always connected.
VZW did get a bit slow during the storm, and for the first time in my 6 years of service I dropped a call. Yes it was a shock to me, but it was due to the storm knocking out power and such.
I don't like VZW for their removing of Unlimited, but no fear it will be back, once these slow to change networks get up to par and start challenging VZW. Get your acts together and give these guys competition, it's the only thing that makes the corporate jerks at VZW change things to appease us.

Like always it depends were one lives I have att over here were I live in Puerto Rico att is the only carrier that has coverage in all the island I never drop calls i also been to NY, LA and san Fran and I never really had a problem with dropped calls I think att has improved a lot I admit in 2008 it was horrible I was ready to switch to Verizon . But stayed with att my sister has t-mobile and sprint and she has had more problems with dropped calls and coverage on T-Mobile and sprint especially sprint it's much worse than T-Mobile I think sprint should be rated worse carrier out there cuz like many people on here have said sprint has Slooow data and horrible reception..

Ive had AT&T for 10 years, ever since they were Cingular, and there service has been improving. There service in California nears Sacramento and there service in Maryland near Ocean City has great coverage. Ive traveled all across the U.S and my AT&T phone has held up much better than my verizon phone. My verizon phone is a Droid DNA and my AT&T phone is an HTC One X+

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